Shaffer Lectures, Yale

The Shaffer Lectureship was established in 1929 by a gift from John C. Shaffer of Chicago, Illinois, as a memorial to his son, Kent Shaffer, Ph.D. 1907, to sponsor lectures on the life, character, and teachings of Jesus.

1935 C. H. Dodd published as Parables of the Kingdom

1937 Martin Dibelius

1951 Rudolf Bultmann

1955 Oscar Cullman "The Anticipated Delivery of the Body According to the New
Testament"

1961 Gerhard Von Rad "Promise and Fulfillment in the Bible"

1966 Ernst Kasemann

1974 Paul Minear "Christ and the Prophetic Succession"

1976 Paul W. Meyer "The Justification of Jesus"

1978 Raymond Brown 'The Importance of Jesus for the Johannine Community in its "Last Hour"'

1980 Leander Keck "Jesus in the New Testament"

1981 Helmut Koester "Books of the Divine Man; From Wisdom Books to Gnostic
Dialogue; From Passion to Narrative Biography"

1983 Hans Frei "Interpretation and Jesus Christ"

1985 Hans Dieter Betz "The Sermon on the Mount: The Challenge Continues"

1987 Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

1989 M. de Jonge "The Nature of the Earliest Response to Jesus; Jesus' Mission and
His Death on the Cross; Jesus as Inaugurator of God's Kingdom. Eschatology and Christology"